Hat-cushion



NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

A. D. PURINTON, OF DOVER, NEW HAMPSHIRE.

HAT-CUSHION.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 28,902, dated J' une 26, 1860.

To all 'whom it may concer/n:

Be it known that I, A. D. PURINTON, of Dover, inthe county of Stratford and State of New Hampshire, have invented an Improved Absorbing Hat-Cushion, of which the following is a full, clear, and eXact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making part of this specification, in whichl Figure l is a View of a hat with my 1mproved cushion attached; Fig. 2, the sweat leather which surrounds the inside of the crown kof the hat; Fig. 3, my improved cushion which is inserted between the sweat leather' and the hat at the front part of it.

The sweat leather A (Figs. l and 2) which is usually placed inside of the crown of a hat, is intended to prevent the perspiration from the head from penetrat-ing the hat and spoiling its appearance, and also to furnish a smooth and agreeable surface to come in contact with the head of the wearer, particularly at the front part. This leather as usually made and applied is but partially effective in protecting the hat, as it is not waterproof and after being worn a short time is liable to be penetrated by the perspiration which also nds its way over the edge of the leather where it is attached to the rim of the hat at the front part.

The object of my present invention is to protect the hat at the front part (where it is most liable to be injured) from the perspiration which may penetrate the sweat leather, and at the same time to interpose a soft and agreeable substance between the forehead of the wearer, and the hard body of the hat, and this I accomplish without the use of a waterproof medium which would tend to keep the head moist where it comes in contact with the hat. And my invention consists in interposing between the sweat leather and the hat at the front part of it a soft elastic cushion made of wool fur or other material which is slightly felted, and is soft and agreeable to the head, and absorbs any moisture which may penetrate the sweat leather.

That others skilled in the art may understand and use my invention I will proceed to describe the manner in which I have carried out the same.

In the said drawings the hat B, Fig. 1, is furnished with the usual sweat leather A between which and the crown of the hat at the front. part is interposed the elastic cushion C (dotted in Fig. 1 and detached and enlarged in Fig. 3). This cushion which is made of any suitable material such as wool fur, &c., which can be felted into a sheet of the proper consistency, is cut of a lengt-h to reach nearly half way around the hat, and of a width rather less than that of the leather A. It is then shaved down With a sharp knife so as to taper in thickness from the middle of its length at b toward each end o as shown in Fig. 3. The leather A is cut as shown in Fig. 2 with a sufficient fullness on one edge at the middle of its length as at (l to extend over the thick part b of the cushion C, and be attached to the hat.

An elastic cushion constructed and arranged as above described will be an agreeable protection to the head from the pressure of the hat, at the same time that it will serve to absorb any moisture which may penetrate the sweat leather, and thus save the appearance of the hat.

I am aware that two or more thicknesses of a thin pile fabric or velvet have been interposed between the sweat leather and the hat, for the purpose of rendering the latter more, easy to the head, but such cushion would fail to accomplish the ends which I have in view, as it is neither suHiciently absorbent nor elastic, at the same time that it affords no means of gradually diminishing the thickness of the cushion from the center to the ends by shaving as may be done with the felt cushion. I therefore lay no claim to such a cushion; but

IVhat I claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent is- The elastic felted cushion C interposed between the sweat leather A and the crown of the hat, substantially as described for the purpose specified.

A. D. PURINTON.

' Witnesses:

JOSEPH VVOODMEN, A. F. I-IUssEY. 

